[HIVE-9783] Move serialization of objects in HBase to protocol buffers

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: hbase-metastore-branch
• Fix Version/s: hbase-metastore-branch, 2.0.0
• Component/s: HBase Metastore, Metastore
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 25/Feb/15 05:29
• Updated: 18/Feb/16 04:19
• Resolved: 05/Mar/15 04:36

Description

The initial versions of this used hand crafted Writables. This has a number of drawbacks, including total lack of version handling. We should switch instead to protocol buffers.